Naomi Shihab Nye: On Inspiration
“I can never imagine how someone would fall in love with poetry and stop reading poems. But I think that people often talk themselves out of responding…” This video is … Continue reading
Patricia A. Nugent: This Feminist (Still) Loves Lucy
I still love Lucy. The I Love Lucy Show is one of the few sitcoms from my childhood that can still make me laugh out loud. As a devoted member … Continue reading
Sierra Club: Fracking 101
Produced by the National Sierra Club and narrated by Edward James Olmos, this animated video outlines the environmental issues about fracking, depicting how methane gas escapes from fracking operations to drive … Continue reading
Lauren McCauley: ‘The Alarm Bells are Ringing’ — From Athletes to Environmentalists, a Universal Call for Racial Justice Emerges
While the protests over deaths of Eric Garner and Mike Brown refuse to stand down, leading environmentalists, labor protesters and others show their solidarity saying: “These issues are not separate.” … Continue reading
Naomi Shihab Nye: “Letters My Prez Is Not Sending” and “Ted Kooser Is My President”
Naomi Shihab Nye reads two poems at the 2009 Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival: “Letters My Prez Is Not Sending” and “Ted Kooser Is My President.” This video is included here by … Continue reading
Rebecca Solnit: Anywhere But Here
Las Vegas and the Global Casino We Call Wall Street “Oh my God, I’m in hell,” I cried out when the car that had rolled for hours through the luscious … Continue reading
Charles D’Ambrosio: This is Living
Originally posted on Longreads:
Charles D’Ambrosio | Loitering | November 2014 | 25 minutes (5,836 words) Download .mobi (Kindle) Download .epub (iBooks) Loitering: New & Collected EssaysFor our latest Longreads Exclusive,…
More Military Interventions? For what, Ashton Carter?
Originally posted on The Contrary Perspective:
Ashton Carter, I have some questions W.J. Astore The juxtaposition of two stories in my NY Times military “feed” got me to thinking this…
Stephen Hawking: Artificial Intelligence could spell end of human race
Mel Packer: Yes, my nation is guilty of torture…
Yes, my nation is guilty of torture, of murder, of discrimination, guilty of waging wars to make campaign donors even richer, guilty of many crimes that I was told in … Continue reading
Of Fiddling Bishops and Intelligent Missiles
Originally posted on The Contrary Perspective:
Michael Gallagher If we can believe the N.Y. Times—and if we can’t believe the N.Y. Times, whom can we believe?—the American Catholic bishops meeting…
Video: “Life During Wartime” by Talking Heads
From Stop Making Sense. Amanda Ashley says, “This makes me happy.”
Bernie Sanders: An Economic Agenda for America, 12 Steps Forward
The American people must make a fundamental decision. Do we continue the 40-year decline of our middle class and the growing gap between the very rich and everyone else, or … Continue reading
Tom Engelhardt: The Torture Wars
It came from the top and that’s never been a secret. The president authorized the building of those CIA “black sites” and the use of what came to be known … Continue reading →